By the age of 28, Vladimir Putin’s daughter Katerina Tikhonova (Putina) had become not only
head of Moscow State University’s M.V. Lomonosov Center for the National Intellectual Reserve, director of the National Intellectual Development Foundation, which supports the research and project work of students, postgraduate students, and young scientists (and was established by Moscow State University), and a member of the university’s governing body — the Academic Council of Moscow State University, which is usually made up of doctors of science and faculty deans.
As it turned out quite by accident, Tikhonova also holds the administrative post of deputy vice-rector at Moscow State University.
Moscow State University is an appallingly corrupt institution (hardly surprising, given that it is headed by a member of United Russia, the Kremlin’s ruling party), but it also has many honest students and postgraduate researchers who monitor their alma mater’s documents and directives specifically for signs of corruption and fraud. One such person noticed this previously unknown deputy vice-rector and then sent us the information.
Take a look:
On April 24, the 7th All-Russian Student Sports Festival opened near the Main Building of Moscow State University.
The event has a dedicated section on the Moscow State University website devoted to the project.
The link to the organizing committee list has now been removed from the Moscow State University website (although it was available some time ago), but a saved copy of the page remains. It is in this archive that there is a link to Order No. 192 and its appendix.
In the appendix to Rector’s Order No. 192 dated March 18, 2015, Tikhonova is listed as a deputy vice-rector.
After reviewing the staff lists of all rectorate departments, Tikhonova does not appear in any of them.
In the list of Academic Council members, Tikhonova is still listed as director of the Center for the National Intellectual Reserve.
Exactly what area Katerina oversees in this position is unknown; no information could be found in open sources. That is a job for the media now — let them find out, assuming they are not too afraid. The last time RBC was the first to tell us who Katerina Tikhonova was, there was even an amusing analysis titled “Which leading media outlets did not write a single word about Putin’s daughter.”